The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, August 01, 1913, Image 1
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YOLOIE LI., MJMBEB 61. JfETVBERRY, S. C., FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 1913. . TWICE A WEEK, $1^0 A TEAK,
Y WASH1NOTON SWEPT |
BY A FIERCE STORM!
DEATH A>D DESTRUCTION IN
AVAKE OF DISTURBANCE.
Three Killed, Scores Injured, Hun-1
dreds of Thousands of Dollars
of Property Destroyed.
Washington, July 30.?Like a giant
\ ' flail, a cyclonic storm of wind, rain
<->?,/* >?o?7 TT-Viirkrmri haolc and forth.
I ? -across
the National capital today,
leaving death and ruin in its wake.
Three dead, scores injured and hundreds
of thousands of dollars' worth
of property destroyed was the toll
rendered in the hurried canvass made
when the city aroused itself after an
| hour of helplessness in the grasp of I
k the elements.
Out of a blazing sky, under which
the city was sweltering with tne temperature
at 100 degrees, came the
storm roaring from the north, driving
a mass of clouds that cast a mantle
of darkness over the city. The gale,
reaching a velocity of almost seventy I
miles an hour, swept the streets clear
unroofed houses, tore detached small
structures from their foundations,
r wrecked one office building, overturned
wagons and carriages in the
stree-s and swept Washington's hundred
parks, tearing huge branches
, from trees, and even uprooting sturdy
eld elms, landmarks of a century.
Sreets Barricaded.
Tonight Washington's well kept
streets, with their wealth of trees,
were littered with broken foliage,
roofs and dead birds, as if a playful
giant had carelessly swished his club
,ip and down tne cny.
As the wind wreaked its havoc the
rain came, and in five minutes the
temperature dropped from hundred
mark to between ?'xty and seventy.
Then the rain turned to hail, and hail
stones battered om roofs and crashed
through skylight? and windows.
PFor half an hour the city cowered,
paralyzed under the beating of the
storm, every activity suspended. Trolley
cars, street traffic and telephone
service were halted, government de-,
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partments suspended operations. The j
wind wrecked a three-story brick office
buildi'ng occupied by the B. S.
Saul company, real estate iealers,
and fifteen persons were carried down
in the crash. W. E. Hilton, vice pres?ident
of the real estate company;
Thomas B. Fealy, 65 years old, a
f tJieiiv, auu a.U uiuucuuiicu man, nuu
entered :h? bu:Mmg to try ;o rescue
those caught in the wreck, were taken
from the ruins dead. Half a dozen
were taken to hospitals seriously
injured, and half a dozen more were
Treated for slight injuries. Tonight
the police still were digging in the
ruins, fearing other bodies might be
recovered.
White House Lawns Damaged.
The neatly kept lawns of the white
i house were devastated. Three huge
& lm trees, uprooted by the wind, were
H thrown bodily across the lawn, and
up to the very portico of the building,
blocking the drives.
President Wilson was seated in the
executive offices when tne wina
crashed through several windows in
the white house proper. Secretary
Tumulty hurried the president and
< "Representative Korbly, of Indiana,
with whom he was conferring, to a
sheltered interior room, away from
the searching lightning flashes,
k The capitol, set high above the city,
?">tan<> >? hrun.fr r?f fr;hp wind. rain. !
[ hail and lightning. The senate was
in session when the hail swept down
with a deafening roar, beating on the
glass roof of the chamber, the tumult
made further business impossible, and
-u .. ?? r^r +r\ xryna nrosri fTon f'<a I
IIIII I J1! II IU tug ? ivv w
Senator Kern megaphoned with his
hands a motion to recess. The mo/
tion was put and although the sensators
could hear nothing, the senate
quit work for fifteen minutes in con
fusion.
On the Capitol Dome.
When the storm broke, thirty-five
painters were at work on the dome of j
the capitol, swarming over the curv-j
ing surface or swinging high on 1
shaky scaffolding. William Reese. \
hio' inverted howl. But Jim Bovle, I
got most of his men to shelter inside
^ the bid inverted bowl. But Jim Boyle,
John Ford, Xoble Bailey and Bruce {
Jones wer too late. Bailey and Jones |
succeeded in scaling the dome in the ;
wind and rain, and gained a sheltered
ledge, they weathered the storm, I
after trying in vain to get inside. !
Boyle and Ford were caught on a j
swinging scaffold just under the eaves i
of the dome and there they swung, j
k< ... I
buffeted by the wind, beaten by the
hail and soaked by the rain, while the
flashes of blue lightning trickled
arnnnri rhp dome, down from the ulat
inum lightning points on the head ol
the Goddess of Freedom that surmounts
the structure. When the
storm was o\er they crept shaken
and bruised to safety inside,
Here and there throughout the city
panic appeared. Horses, driven frantic
hv the wind and hail, dashed
through the streets in terror until
they were stopped by collision with
some other wind-strewn object. In
some of the office buildings and the
government buildings disastrous panics
narrowly were averted. At the
bureau of printing and engraving,
where hundreds of women are employed,
the wind, sweeping through a
huge window, sent a storm ot oruKtu
plate-glass hurtlJug through the big
press room.
Women Faint, Panic Stricken.
Eight or ten women were cut by
falling glass, and one printer, John
Rhodes suffered severe scalp wounds.
The crash of glass swept panic !
through the room. A hundred or
more of the girls working as printers'
assistants, fainted and fell to the
floor and otners aasnea terror-stricKen
for the exits. For two hours the
office was in an uproar.
While the excitement was at its
height, the wind caught a bundle of
1,000 one-dollar bills, half finished,
and swept it through the broken window.
The bundle was ripped to piec
es and the bills scattered far and
wide.
Director Ralph hurried out a force
of scouts, and after combing Potomac
Park and the grounds of the Washington
monument for miles, and fishing
in the tidal basin near by, all but
$75 worth of the bills were recovered.
Another name threatened at the
pension office, where the lightning
ripped a corner off the roof and
crashed in scores of windows. Another
lightning-bolt tore a hole in the
roof of the postoffice building and ripped
open one face of the big clock in
the tower.
Stray Teams Ronnded Up.
The wind ripped fifteen heavy panels
from the- floor of the historic old
aqueduct bridge, and a horse and
i wagon crossing the structure was
blown into the river. The driver escaped.
* Tonight the police rounded up
scores of strayed horses and wagons
which had been deserted in the
streets or had run away.
On the Potomac river water traffic
was demoralized. The tug* Edith God.dard
Winship sank in the blow and
her crew was taken off by a barge
which she was towing. The excursion
steamer Charles H. Warner tonight
is aground several miles up the
river, with more than one hundred
excursionists aboard. She is reported
in a safe position.
TomQc stnririflrfi. a resular soldier,
t; N/ WVkV>V?- ? -wrescued
three Washington physicians
from an overturned small boat in the
river.
None of the men could swim, but
Stoddard brought them all in safely,
towing the three at one time. Launches
a'lid small crs.fts along the shores
were swept from their moorings and
carried away down the river ahead
of the gale.
"D An^ACAnto tl vo FirvvT of Virginia, I
UCJJiOOCU'.tt.n'v ? _
narrowly escaped death or serious injury
when, in the height of the storm,
he was driving in an automobile
through the white house grounds. A
huge uprooted elm was thrown by the
wfnd directly in the path, just missing
the automobile.
The weather bureau said tonight
that the storm was a purely local disturbance
over the city, and that its
nath covered only a few miles. The
official records gave the velocity of
the wind at 54 miles, although at
times it reached 60 miles an hour.
During the brief storm 2.02 inches
of rain fell.
To Our Sunday School Workers:
The Newberry county union Sunday
school association will meet at
Bethel church in No. 9 township
August 7, for a two days' session. We
want to see every Sunday school in
fhp ronntv renresented by a full del
egation. We will have the best meeting
we have ever held in our county
if we will do our duty.
Better work in the future should
and must be our aim.
* ?~ 1 ??- u?v. Aiir tnu'.ich'ni
?. gt uu I1UU1UC1 XJL UU1 ?-w ..
arc v. ell organized and all should oe
before the yp?.r c'oses.
Let t-ach delegate feel that h? cannot
be absent from the association.
Respectfully,
Arthur Kibler,
P:f.vcenr. Association.
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TWO DIE IN WRECK;
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fflAM MULI nUftl
L. AND C. TRAIN FALLS THROUGH
TRESTLE NEAR CHESTER.
Mixed Train "With Fails for Ball Game
Wrecked?Coal Car Jumps and
Breaks Trestle.
Chester, S. C., July 30.?Two persons
were kiled and fifty wer more
or less injured when two passenger
coaches of the Lancaster and Chester
railway plunged through a trestle and
fell 50 feet into the stream below late
today. Several of the injured may die.
The wreck occurred at Hooper's
Creek, seven miles from here.
V. H. Craft, of Anderson, and Elijah
Hall, the latter a negro member of
the train crew, were killed. A number
of others, it is belie'ved, cannot
survive the night.
Th accident occurred as the train,
loaded with passengers who expected
to witness a baseball game at Chester,
was passing over a trestle.
The train was a mixed freight and
passenger. The six freight cars and,
the engine passed over the trestl in J
safety. A coal car, next in line.1
seems to have shaken the trestle bad'**
+>?o nocooncror o u rc PT1
i-Ul ? 11C11 pttOOVAlQV* VMA W
tered it the structure went down, carrying
with it the two passenger cars,
which were splintered by the fall.
A rescue train with physicians and
nurses was rushed to the scene. The
injured were brought to Ches:er.
Nearly all of the injured were so badly
hurt as to require treatment at a
hospital.
Chester, July 30.?One of the most
fearful wrecks in the history of
Chester county occurred this afternoon
at 5 o'clock, when the westbound
Lancaster and Chester mixed
freight and passenger train, loaded
with passengers for the Chester-Dil*
? ~ -rtmr- rfr>ar>\.'of 1
1011 DES6Dcl.ll giiuic, nas v> n-v,m,u i?v
Hooper's Creek, between Knox's and
Orr's seven miles from Chester. One
member of the crew, Elijah Heath, a
I negro, was instantly killed, and V. H.
Craft, of Anderso'n, died later from
injuries. Nearly fifty of the crew and
j passengers were injured, several of
whom will probably die before morning.
V. H. Craft, of Anderson, died
while being broreht to Chester.
The engine, tender and six freight
cars passed over the bridge in safety.
A coal caT was next, and this seems
to have jumped the track and cut the
ties of the bridge badly, with the result
that when the passenger coaches
and two box cars reached the trestle
the structure was badly torn up, and
the passenger coaches dropped from |
a sheer height of fifty feet into the
bed of the stream.
Ordered to Bring Physicians.
Engineer John Stewman, warned
by his airbrakes that someth!ng was
wrong, looked back and saw the cars
piled in the stream. He made his
way to a nearby house, where there
was a phone. He was instructed by
Superintendent A. P. McClure at Lancaster
to bring the remaining part of
his train on to Chester and return
with all :he physicians that he could
secure. This order was carried out
and practically every physician and
nurse in Chester was hurried to the
scene.
News of the disaster reached the
baseball grounds while the championship
contest was at its height,
and hundreds hurried to the scene of
the disaster in automobiles and other
vehicles. The sight that met the eyes
of those who reached the spot first
was appalling. Scores were fastened
underneath the battered cars and
screaming in agony and fear. The
first step necessary to effect the rescue
of the wounded was to build a
bridge out of the wreckage and climb
from car to car and take out the
wounded as rapidly as they could be
reached. Many acts of heriosm in the
- on r?
work or rescue were pei iui mcu,
there were many instances of selfsacrifice
as the physicians proceeded
to trat the injured, some declaring that
others were more seriously hurt, and
urging the physicians and nurses to j
leave them until others were treat- j
ed.
Dead and Injured.
The list of the dead and injured, as
far as obtainable tonight, is as follows
:
Dead: V. H. Craft, of Anderson, a
traveling salesman; Elijah Heath,
Basconiville, colored brakeman, was
in baggage car.
Injured: C. L. Dunlap, Fort Lawn,
right eye bruised and left hand cat,
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AN AUTOMOBILE TRIP ;
THROUGH UP-COUNTRY!
SOMETHING OF THE HO A DS. AM) (
OTHER THINGS.
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A Pleasant Journey Through Prosperous
Country?Heavy Rains
Encountered.
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An automobile journey of 251 miles
from Newberry through the upper .
section or isouin uarouna ana return
is illuminating and instructive, and
some observations as to the roads, ,
the crops and the general prosperity
of the country, by one who is more or
less familiar with this section, may
be of some little interest to the readers
of The Herald and News.
A gentleman at Fountain Inn. in
me lower pan or ureenvun; cuuui^,
near th eLaurens line, remarked on
Wednesday that "the crop prospects
in his section were never better in
the past number of years." As matter
of fact, the crops are, for the most
part, good in the entire upper part of
the State which was traversed. While
one is told everywhere that "money is
tight," yet there is a general appearance
of prosperity.
Bad Crossing on Fairly Good Road.
Leaving Xewberry early Saturday
morning, after a heavy rain here,
which extended up the Laurens road
only about three miles, the run nearly
to Laurens was made in excellent
time. Wet roads were encountered
again at Clinton, on up towards Laurens,
and the road-bed was slippery,
but no trouble was encountered until
just beyond Parks Station, about
three miles this side of Laurens,
whore vl-p. hurt to hnild a road to
cross a creek. In dry weather no
trouble is encountered at this creek,
but the heavy rain of the night before
had washed heavy sand on either bank
leaving a sheer drop of some threj
feet to the bed of the stream.
Experience of dewberry Cjir.
The night before the car of Mr
Lambert W. Jones, of 'Xevvberrv, coming
townrds Newberry, had run into
this creek, and had to remain in *he
creek until the water went down. Mr.
Jones and Mr. B. V. Chapman returned
to Nowh^r^y by rail. Mr. .Toi.es' j
son remained over in Laurens with j
the car, and s>e siw li.in after our ex- (
perience with this stream on Satur
day morning.
Will Build Bridge.
Supervisor Humbert, of Laurens
county, says he is going to build a
bridge across this stream. Certainly
this is what ought to be done, and
done right away. This is the main !
highway from the low-country to the J
mountains, and the only really very j
bad place in the whole road from
Newberry to Greenville, though the!
greater part of the road could be put
in better shape than at present with !
not very great effort.
Until Supervisor Humbert does;
build his bridge, those going along
this road in automobiles after heavy .
rains can miss this crossing by turn-'
ing to the right, across the railroad, I
at Paik Station, and going into Laurens
around by the Bell place and the
Watts mill. This is a mile or two out
of the way, but is considerably safer
and easier. In dry weather the crossing
at the stream which gave trou
ble is usually all right.
Laurens to Greenwood
From Laurens we went to Greenwood,
a distance of about 28 miles.
The roads through here are An good
shape in dry weather, and good time
was made to Waterloo. At Waterloo
a heavy rain of about two hours' |
n-ou OTl^ftnntprpH Stormine I
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at Waterloo until the rain was over,
the trip to Greenwood was resumed
over heavy, slippery roads, through
which the Ford car ploughed for the
most part in low gear. The road is
narrow, with ditches on either side,
and the danger was from skid.'\iig.
There are many nice, comfortable
country homes in this section of Laurens
and Greehwbod counties. and( '
the crops are very good. Greenwood,!
one of the best towjns in the upper
part of South Carolina, was reached
on aSturday afternoon about five :
o'clock. The streets were crowded, 1
and the whole town was busy, as 1
usual. 1
The new building for the Oregon
hotel, the National Loan and Ex- !
change bank, a;nd other enterprises
and offices is going up rapidly. J
A Fine Road.
We dropped down to Dyson, a
distance of seventeen miles from
Greenwood, on Saturday night.
There is no better road to be found <
In the whole upper section of the 1
state than from Grenwood to Nine- |
:y Six, a distance of about 10 miles, j
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i^ven after tne Heavy rams or aaiuriay
a car could be run on this road
without slackening of speed except
?very now and then for a hole in the j
road?which seems to be inevitable
>11 a South Carolina road?and the
strange part of it is that usually the j
worst holes are in front of homes.
Greenwood to Greenville. Returning
to Greenwood 011 Sunday
morning, the intention was to
rv,,oVi /vn Croonvillp nn SnndaV af
Wi ? <
ternoon, but a heavy rain early Sunday
afternoon required that the night
be spent in Greenwood. An early
start was made from Greenwood on
Monday morniaig, taking the road
through Hodges, Honea Path, Belton,
Williamston, Pelzer and Piedmont, i
The road from Greenwood to Hodges
had been freshly worked, and was
exceedingly heavy in places, but from
Hodges on to Greenville the road was
good. All the towns presented a
clean, business-like appearance, especially
Belton. The hotel at Belton
is now in charge of Mr. W. A. Jamieson,
formerly of the Newberry hotel.
The best two miles of road passed
over were in the town limits of Williamston.
A fine, hard road, well
drained, this road or street is a credit
to tiiis little city.
From Greenville out to Chick
Springs, along the national highway,
the road is good.
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The return trip from Greenville was
made via Fountain Inn to Laurens,
along the capital highway. This road
was very good, even after the rains,
and after passing Laurens the bad
creek crossing, above referred to,
was avoided.
It would take very little effort to
put every road takefc during the whole
c c*r\ as tn with
trip 111 11 lie ^UUUIUUU, CW vw
stand even the hard rains of this
week, by mixing a little sand and
clay here and there, by putting a few
little bridges in repair, and by draining
the roads. The trouble with most,
of the roads is tbat they are not properly
drained.
Good frODS.
In Anderson and Greenville counties
the crops were especially fineN
but no better than from Newberry to
Prosperity, in this county. In fact,
the crops alotng the Xewberry-Prosperity
road are as good as can be
found anywhere.
TV>? Van'horrv r>01intv TOads dO not
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compare favorably with the roads
above Newberry county. This fact is
evident to any one taking a trip of
the kind which was taken by the
Newberry party.
Fine Development in Progress.
The upper section of the State is
experiencing a wonderful development
The Piedmont and Northern cars of
the G. S. & A. trolley line have been
in operation for some time between
Greenwood and Greenville, passing
through a rich section of country.
The Southern railroad, which this
' . ?n,Ar.>nO'
electric line paraiieis, ia miviunua
its road bed and is running trains
between Greenwood and Greenville.
Work is progressing rapidly on the
G. S. & A. trolley line between Greenville
and Spartanburg. A great deal
of money is beifcg spent on this line.
We were told that the line will cost
$50,000 per mile, equipped. Concrete
j.t.
trestles are being put across me
streams, and minimum grades are being
made. Not over a one per cent
grade will be tolerated. Near Chick
Springs, ten miles out from Greenville,
the construction of a trestle
shows clearly the fine character of
work which is being done.
At Chick Springs.
Tne UfllCK springs prupeiLj naa
cently passed into the hands of a
company in which it is understood the
Dukes, who are behind the trolley?
the gentlemen who are interested in
the Southern Power company?are
largely interested. It is the purpose
to erect a big new hotel at Chicks,
the work to commence about the first
of Sentember, and the hotel to be
ready for the next season. The trolley
passes right by the hotel, and
with the proper expnditures of money
and proper management, which willno
doubt be had, this resort promises
to become one of the most popular in <
the South. <
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In the party making the trip ofj?
four days were Mr. E. H. Aull and 3
Miss Alice Aull and Mr. and Mrs. ]
K Anil and Little Miss Julia
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Kate Auli. }
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Some people believe in doing only 1
Dne thing at a time, and then do the :
cvrong thing. <
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CARLISLE GOES TO THE
NEWBERRY COUNTY JAIL
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[JEGINS SERVICE OF SENTENCE
OF YEAR AND ONE DAY.
First Sentence of Five Years Cut by
President?Further Clemency is
Hoped For.
Milton A. Carlisle, former president
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ui me ?\auonai uaiib. uj. ^cw uai^,
who was convicted in the United
States court in Greenville of violation
of the national banking laws, began
yesterday morning the service,of
his sentence of one year and a day
in the Newberry jail.
The commitment was turned over
to Sheriff Blease by an officer from
the marshall's office in Charleston,
but Mr. Carlisle had already gone to
the jail before the arrival of the officer
in Newberry yesterday morning.
Mr. aCrlisle was sentenced to serve
five years in the Federal penitentiary,
but his sentence was commuted to a
w />Ammnfo/l
J Cdi ililU d VJLCLJ y G.UU wugu wuiuxuwv^u
to service of the sentence in the Newberry
jail.
Six days out of every month are
taken off for good behavior, ana this
will shorten Mr. Carlisle's sen;ence
considerably.
iFurther clemency is still hoped for
by his friends.
>EW SEABOARD EQUIPMENT.
Modern in Every Kespect and Equipped
With the Very Best.
The Seaboard Air Line has placed
in service on all through trains the
handsomest diner ever built. The
cars are inducive to cool traveling as
well as to safety. Paddle fans really
cool the passengers witnout. ouzaing.
The tile floor is cool, sainitary and
does not contain odors as carpets do.
The sunken electric lights give sufficient
light without being glaring,
and the ventilation of these modern,
cars removes the sting of summer.
The service is a la carte, offering the
best the market affords
Iin addition to this, they have also
put in service new steel coaches,
elaborately finished which makes
them the pioneers in solid steel trains
operating in the South.
For full information relative Seaboard
schedules, etc., write C. W.
Small; Div.{ Pass., Agent, Savannah,
Ga.
NO "ENOREE COUNTY"
Plan For >"e?r Division With Woodruff
as Seat of Government
Fn-Is to Carry.
Woodruff, July 29.?Despite Woodruff's
unanimous vote in favor of the
formation of "Enoree county" with,
this town as county seat, the project
has failed after a strenuous campaign
lasting since early in the summer.
The people in both strips of
territory depended on to form the
new county have rejected the plan.
~ r mftfo W9o S1f)
in luaurens buip iuc ??* ?, -
to 143. Spartanburg's vote was 745
for the new county to 1,053 against
it.
Many of the precincts went solidly
against the formation of the county.
At Enoree and Cross Anchor, which
had been expected to give a good vote
for the new county, the vote was 4
to 1 against the plan.
Woodruff voted solidly for the newcounty,
polling 137 votes for it.
The people of Woodruff, though
disappointed at the result are taking
their defeat resignedly.
Death of Miss Jacobs.
Miss Rebecca Jacobs, 79 years old,
died Monday at Spring Hill, and was
buried on Tuesday at the old family
burying ground near Spring HiH,
service by the Rev. V. L. Fulmer. She
was the aunt of Mr. G. W. Jacobs, of
this city. Two sisters, Mrs. S. A.
Ellesor and Miss Mary Jacobs, suri-lvo
VIPT
The Other Round.
A country vicar is telling a story
Df an incident which happened in his
:hurch the other Sunday. During the
sermon a baby began to cry, and its
mother picked it up and began to car
ry it toward the door.
"Stop!" the vicar exclaimed. "Don't
*o away. The baby is not disturbing
ne."
The mother continued her way to
:he door with the remark: "Oh, he
rln't ain't he? But you're a-disturbin'
Df 'im!"?London Farm and Home.
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